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Akechi's confidant texts were absent in the December beta. They appear in February, but by the time of June/retail they've been rewritten. The original texts were quite different.
Comparative spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13H00hMhm0UHDU2ovqmNi-NwFaAfkrp4KbKCdXmI2f3s/edit?usp=sharing
https://vxtwitter.com/nightshrike/status/1750005495190974824
Absolutely losing my shit over how they softened this one for retail. (which is out of game, of course, and never seen)
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HE WAS A POOR LITTLE BOY
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WHO LOST HIS WAY
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its weird how little the shido akechi relationship was dabbled in the final game
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no, michi o harasu connotes like a moral failure, swerving from right action, BEING VERY BAD
i know right
i think it is like ... it's there but even in the original they only hint at it
besides LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in big letters in the confidant
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lemme see if the events are there
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i want to diff the shido and akechi scenes unless someone else gets to it first but right now i want to shove some chocolate strawberries into my face
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wait
his confidant might already be in dec build
theres a 714
wait thats kawakami
nevermind
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event lsit fucked me over
im in dec cpk right now so im lookign throguh it first for a number that doesnt exist in royal
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nope
assuming akechi was meant to be 720 (as that follows the order the game uses) he isnt there
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denied
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Royal skips to 722 for Sumire
so theres a possibility of a 720 and 721 thats never used
(719 is Yoshida)
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i think it is like ... it's there but even in the original they only hint at it
tbh the whole relationship has such a bad case of "awkwardly infodumped in the lategame" that, combined with some other known scrapped ideas that are incompatible, im convinced the plot point itself was a late addition lol
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tbh the whole relationship has such a bad case of "awkwardly infodumped in the l...
it wouldn't surprise me. just from like the new portraits and icons it seems like there was a concerted effort to soften him lol which they pulled back a bit
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ill boot this into feb build and see what it is
since there is no event 720
theres a bunch labelled under 720s that arent used
which actually. match the confidant structure exactly
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there's a conf 20
in uhh december. he has texts most of which suck and i think a model
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oh wait that was 722
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but then he's removed by feb
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still 722 isnt used either way
since thats right before Sumire in Royal
gahh give me a minute this will take forever to get working
weirdly, 724 isnt either
which is also unused in Royal
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The other really bitching thing in that spreadsheet is that december akechi had a totally different set of confidant abilities
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also 27 and 28
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i have them translated right down to the skill names i think
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The other really bitching thing in that spreadsheet is that december akechi had ...
that seems to go for most confidants
Ann's Rank 10 is the unused disguise mechanic
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iirc rank 10 was "detective's philosophy" or similar
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Ohya's Rank 10 was to disable the Doubt/Break system
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hashtag we were robbed
I saw Ohya's
That would have been so good and then they got rid of it
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its the theatre screen
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always fucks with me how so much shit was cut and we still got a 120 hr game
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also even today in royal akechi has like a hidden rank 10 text that's something like "unleashes the power to go totally psychotic" which ok
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this is 720_000
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Ahhh ok
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maybe joker and akechi went on a theater date
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Thinks about that mm scene where they're in the movie theatre yeah
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722 looks to be something for the velevt room
its all velvet room effects
724 contains the animation for when a confidant gains their second persona
727 is the thieves logo?
729 looks to be some kind of move effect
looks like the actual event never got made
or at least finished enough for any builds
other then the leftover event effect
could still have the writing stored in the game though
